pixel_of_moral_decay t1_irgnps7 wrote on October 7, 2022 at 11:45 PM

Reply to comment by keepseeing444 in More good news for JSQ! by Historical_Times_29

It’s part of why they’re a shit show.

They take the more profitable easy to teach students and leave the more expensive ones in public schools.

Then everyone complains that public schools spend too much per child and have poorer outcomes ignoring how many barriers are put into place to avoid letting kids with expensive issues get into charter schools.

It’s like a hospital who claims cost effective treatment compared to other hospitals but only treats skinned knees. Everyone else gets sent to other ER’s.

keepseeing444 t1_irgr8el wrote on October 8, 2022 at 12:17 AM

Students are not the shitshow. I don’t fault individual teachers either but the incompetent deadweights in administration building that make your life incredibly difficult as a tax paying parent when you’re trying to enroll or transfer your kid or need any kind of basic assistance or clarity from their convoluted and often asinine practices. The level of disdain and contempt they show to people that pay their salaries and pensions is beyond despicable. Their standard protocol for responding to emails is “Ignore all”. Then when you are forced to call them it’s never easy - and that someone on the phone is usually just so fucking rude and impatient AF like “why the fuck are you bothering me?”. The culture from admin layer gets passed down to individual schools leadership unfortunately and overall this is the shitshow that gave birth to popularity of charters I am betting.

Ilanaspax t1_irgtuqd wrote on October 8, 2022 at 12:42 AM

Wait until you see who invests in charter schools and realize there are lobbyists actively working to destroy public education for profit. There’s a reason why some things should not be privatized.

Charter lobby still paying for influence

pixel_of_moral_decay t1_irgw3kt wrote on October 8, 2022 at 1:02 AM

Yup. It’s gross.

Same with trying to dismantle USPS or privatize parts of the military, or even NASA.

These things were setup as public institutions for very clear reasons. To avoid profit being the primary goal rather than achieving objectives and to ensure public has input and accountability.

These institutions were setup that way to prevent profiteering, and now they’re being modified to allow political donors to fill their wallets.

Profit shouldn’t be the motive. The finances these things should be worried about is getting the most out of their budget, avoiding overruns, and demonstrating results.

jerseyboiii t1_irhd7dn wrote on October 8, 2022 at 3:51 AM

I’ll bet this school does well and the other public schools don’t get worse.

If it’s all the same pot of students, overall doesn’t it mean no real change to city’s schools? Don’t they include charter schools in the overall jc statistics ? Who care is this charter school takes money away from public schools, it is also a public school teaching public school kids. Who the hell is talking about defunding the public schools ? This is a jc public school

Probably a better one.

Sure it attracts families that are smart enough to apply.

Kids at the other jsq schools have families that are not smart enough to apply. Why is that bad? There are already “good” schools and “bad” ones, why is it bad to have another good one?

I feel like it just makes people butthurt because it ends up showing that it’s not really the school that matters, it’s the kids.

But that also shouldn’t matter in terms of policy. Cuz kids who do poorly would do poorly in any school. Not everyone is an A student or even a B student.